Issue 129 March 2010
Friends and Foes
The one where Jan Verwoert writes about the 1990s, ‘New Innocence’, popular TV shows and the ethics of profanity
Art Space
Have crowded museums and galleries put an end to uninterrupted contemplation?
New Canons
The re-writing of art history in South Africa
Long Exposure
The death and resurrection of photography in a digitized world
Life in Film: William E. Jones
In an ongoing series, frieze asks artists and filmmakers to list the movies that have influenced their practice
I Saw It
The rise of ‘dark tourism’ poses the question: are works of art as powerful as the sites they attempt to memorialize?
When Italy was Modern
The resurgence of interest in two pioneering Italian Modernists demonstrates the European avant-garde’s influence on a new generation of artists.
Battling to the End: Conversations with Benoît Chantre
René Girard (Michigan State University Press, 2009)
Andy Warhol
Arthur C. Danto (Yale University Press, 2009)
On Monsters: An Unnatural History of Our Worst Fears
Stephen T. Asma (Oxford University Press, 2009)
Landings
Richard Skelton (Type, 2010)
The Perfect Prescription
Spacemen 3 (Fire Records, 1987/2009)
Black Noise
Pantha du Prince (Rough Trade, 2010)
Through the Looking Glass
From tableaux vivants to Photoshop, the philosophical and optical enquiries of Pietro Roccasalva inevitably return to painting
Waiting for the Future
Filmmakers, writers and theorists, The Otolith Group mine the past in order to understand what's yet to come
Speech Acts
Art historian Roger Cook discusses politics, performance and collaboration with artist Sharon Hayes
How it Appears
From performance, sculpture and painting to staging and directing an opera, Zhang Huan explores his interests in transience, Buddhism and the revitalization of traditional Chinese craftsmanship
Glenn Sorensen
Suspension, isolation, anticipation; frozen moments, ghostly flowers and floodlit nights
Alice Channer
Pleated fabrics, dresses and made-to-measure sculptures; cigarettes, tailoring and shop windows
Aurélien Froment
Memory, word games and puzzles; knots, conjuring tricks and cinema
In Translation
A Dutch–Arabic typography project shows increasing compatibility between strikingly different languages and cultures
Mouth to Mouth
Working through abjection and attraction, the sculptures of the late Alina Szapocznikow engender the politics of emotion
Pae White
Pae White lives and works in Los Angeles, USA. Her work is included in the 2010 Whitney Biennial and she has been commissioned by Art on the Underground to create a new work for Gloucester Road tube station in London, which will be installed later this year.
ACT UP New York
Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts / Harvard Art Museum, Boston, USA
By Ara H. Merjian
Chantal Akerman
Galerie Marian Goodman, Paris, France
By Vivian Rehberg
David Musgrave
greengrassi, London, UK
By Colin Perry
Besides, With, Against and Yet
The Kitchen, New York, USA
By Morgan Falconer
First Works
Architectural Association, London, UK
By Douglas Murphy
Julie Mehretu
Deutsche Guggenheim, Berlin, Germany
By Mark Prince
Dianna Molzan
Overduin and Kite, Los Angeles, USA
By Andrew Berardini
Pieter Hugo
Cokkie Snoei, Amsterdam, Netherlands
By Douglas Heingartner
Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster
Dia at the Hispanic Society of America, New York, USA
By Kristin M. Jones
Luke Fowler
The Modern Institute, Glasgow, UK
By Steven Cairns
Simon Denny
Galerie Daniel Buchholz, Cologne, Germany
By Catrin Lorch and Translated by Nicholas Grindell
Ruth Buchanan
The Showroom, London, UK
By Kathy Noble
Charles Burchfield
Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, USA
By Christopher Bedford
Simple Tales
Chatterjee & Lal, Mumbai, India
By Heidi Fichtner
Yoshua Okón
Museo de Arte Carrillo Gil, Mexico City, Mexico
By Jessica Berlanga Taylor
Daniel Richter
Essl Museum, Vienna, Austria
By Helen Chang
Bob Law
Thomas Dane Gallery and Karsten Schubert, London, UK
By Jonathan Griffin
Andrea Bowers
Andrew Kreps Gallery, New York, USA
By Graham T. Beck
Diango Hernández
Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Siegen, Germany
By Catrin Lorch and Translated by Nicholas Grindell
Emmanuelle Léonard
Les Ateliers Jean Brillant, Montreal, Canada
By James D. Campbell
Evil to the Core
The Israeli Center for Digital Art, Holon, Israel
By Daniel Miller
Sancho Silva
Pinksummer, Genoa, Italy
By Barbara Casavecchia
Isabel Nolan
Kerlin Gallery, Dublin, Ireland
By Isobel Harbison
Hyperborean Manners
Rob Tufnell at 1 Sutton Lane, London, UK
By Tom Morton
Stuart Sherman
80WSE Galleries, New York University / Participant Inc, New York, USA
By Steven Stern
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